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Housing & Economic Development <br />• It is not simply a "city" problem so cities must not be expected to bear the bulk of <br />the burden of mitigation. <br />Further, Metro Cities supports: <br />Registration of vacant and boarded properties; <br />• Allowing cities to acquire vacant and boarded properties before deterioration and <br />vandalism result in unsalvageable structures, including providing financial tools such as <br />increasing eminent domain flexibility; <br />• Improvements to the cost assignment process to ensure that cities can recoup their <br />costs of managing vacant properties; <br />• Improving the ability of cities to recoup the increased public safety and enforcement <br />costs related to vacant properties; <br />• Improvement of the redemption process to provide increased notification to renters, <br />strengthen the ability of homeowners to retain their properties, and reduce the amount of <br />time a property is vacant; <br />Expedition of the tax forfeiture process; <br />• Increasing financial tools for neighborhood recovery efforts, including tax <br />increment financing; and <br />• Year-round notification by utility companies of properties not receiving utility <br />service. <br />3-J Housing Ordinance Enforcement <br />A Minnesota State Supreme Court ruling, Morris v. Sax, stated that provisions of the city of <br />Morris' rental housing code were invalid because there were subjects dealt with under the state <br />building code and the city was attempting to regulate these areas "differently from the state <br />building code." M.S. 16B.6s subdivision 1 states: "The state building code applies statewide and <br />supersedes the building code of any municipality. A municipality must not by ordinance or <br />through development agreement require building code provisions regulating components or <br />systems of any residential structure that are different from any provision of the state building <br />code." <br />Metro Cities supports the ability of cities to enforce all housing codes passed by a local <br />municipality to maintain its housing stock. <br />3-K Economic Development, Redevelopment and Workforce Readiness <br />2019 Legislative Policies <br />28 <br />